Business planning: Tips for setting business goals

Whether you are starting a new business or have spent years running your business, spending time focusing on business planning and setting business goals can have a huge impact on your success.

In this section you’ll find plenty of business planning ideas not only on business goal setting, but also on how to achieve your business goals once they have been set. We give advice on setting long term business goals, as well as breaking your business goals into smaller objectives.

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Setting business goals articles

• Starting Out

  Get out of your comfort zone!

  Comfort zones are insidious. They keep us doing the same old things, the way we’ve always done them. After all, when was the last time you thought about taking your business to new and heady heights, but didn’t actually get any further?

  • Published 22 January 07
  • Megan Tough
  • 9 Comments

• Starting Out

  An achievable vision for your solo business

  Is your vision for your business acheivable? Only then can it keep you motivated and focused. Here's how a vision that's grounded in reality can be of real use to your solo business.

  • Published 29 November 06
  • Paul J. Morris
  • 2 Comments

• Starting Out

  Setting goals: Turning dreams into reality

  There is a big difference between dreams and goals. Here's what to consider when it comes to setting goals and turning dreams into reality!

  • Published 01 November 06
  • Linda Anderson
  • 8 Comments

• Starting Out

  How to set business goals (big hairy ones!)

  In the heady arena of business strategy and business goals, consultants find wonderful acronyms for the work they do. Today let me introduce one of those to you. It’s the BHAG – the Big Hairy Audacious Goal!

  • Published 19 May 06
  • Megan Tough
  • 5 Comments

• Starting Out

  Self-regulation: Setting and achieving goals

  What is it that helps and hurts us when it comes to achieving our goals? Why is it so easy one day and so difficult the next? Here are three factors which play a part in self-regulation and setting and achieving goals.

  • Published 17 February 06
  • Ellen Jackson
  • 3 Comments

• Starting Out

  Goal setting tips for your business

  The secret to effective goal setting is to break your big objectives into manageable chunks. Here's how...

  • Published 29 September 05
  • Barb Clews
  • 2 Comments